Africa: Women Impacted by Climate Change – But Not as Victims
Melissa Britz – All Africa - Monday, 12 December 2011 2011 (originally published 6 Dec)
Durban —”My mother believed that if I go to school I will have information about my reproductive health,” continued Agbarakwe, a climate change expert at the UN Climate Talks in Durban (COP17). “My mother didn’t tell me about sex, but she knew when I go to school I will get all that information”.
Information about sex is not unrelated to action against climate change, according to Agbarakwe and other panelists at a high-level discussion hosted by the U.S.-based Aspen Institute, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Population Action International.
The United Nations declared a symbolic day recently to mark global population topping seven billion, but how is population growth linked to climate change and sustainable development? . . .
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